$1 PERKS AND PAY CRAFT BREWING Firms provide workers Taprooms springing up food, exercise classes throughout the region 11A 14A Volume 32 Issue 15 | July 5-18, 2013 Noodles cooks up Wall Street winner BY BETH POTTER Noodles & Co. executives have said
[email protected] they plan to grow the company’s Stock price more than doubles soon number of restaurants to 2,500 in the BROOMFIELD – For Noodles & next 15 to 20 years. Co. Inc., success is being served up in after locally based firm launches IPO The soaring stock price right out ever-bigger helpings. The Broomfield-based company mission . Underwriters may buy an of the gate is the latest and greatest Hungry investors of Noodles’ stock (Nasdaq: NDLS) raised $96.4 mil- additional 803,571 shares in overal- in a line of successes for the Colora- sent the fast-casual restaurant chain’s lion in the initial public offering, sell- lotments in the next 30 days. do-born company. The $40 trading share price over the $40 mark just one ing 5.4 million shares for $18 each, Shares rose to $40.67 in trading price comes after Noodles originally trading day after it made its debut at according to documents filed with the on July 1 before dropping slightly to planned its price per share in the IPO $18 on June 28. U.S. Securities and Exchange Com- close at $38.47 at the market’s close. ➤ See Noodles, 22A Residents Canines on call enlisted Front Range Rescue dogs – and their owners – provide vital service 24/7 to help sell Boulder Bureau makes video to train ‘ambassadors’ BY BETH POTTER
[email protected] BOULDER — The Boulder Con- vention and Visitors Bureau wants resi- dents to be “ambassadors” for the city.